Abstract

This article is the most recent summary of road accidents in Sweden, providing statistics on road deaths by year, type of driver involved, and age of the drivers involved. Sweden, along with the Netherlands, Norway, and Great Britain has one of the lowest crash fatality rates worldwide. Part of this success is due to an 11 point plan implemented in 1999, which prescribes measures regarding the following points- the financing of new roads, voluntary organizations, traffic offenses, road traffic system design, technologies, winter tires, quality assurance, cyclists, road-user responsibility, safety in urban areas, and safety for particularly dangerous areas. The author concludes that, while Sweden has made a marked improvement in traffic fatality trends, it will not meet its goal of 270 or fewer deaths in 2007. The author believes that this could be improved with better speed compliance, which would predict a fifty percent decrease in fatalities.

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